2025 Christmas Closures for Tucson & Yuma
Below is your quick reference list for all the city closures happening in Tucson and Yuma!. City offices for the City of Tucson will be closed on Thursday, December 25th, 2025, and Thursday, January 1st, 2026. Trash & Recycling collection:. No collection on Thursday, December 25th, or Thursday, January 1st....
Tucson wants community help to reimagine future of Valdez library building
Do you have a creative idea for how the Valdez library building should be used when the county moves out? Tucson wants to know. The city will put out a call for ideas on how to redevelop the downtown site after decades as the county library building. The county library’s...
FIRST ALERT FORECAST – Ho-Ho-Hot days heading into Christmas
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - Sunny and mild today. Temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s today, with a chance of breaking the previous record high of 82 in 2024. Record breaking temperatures are possible heading into Wednesday. Monday looks to be the warmest day of the week and has the greater chance of breaking the...
Beyond Bread Expands With New Home
Beyond Bread has long been part of Tucson’s daily rhythm, known for its fresh baked breads, pastries, and comfort driven menu. This winter, the local bakery and cafe added a new chapter with the opening of its Bread Mill location on South Park Avenue. Housed inside the historic Bread...
17,000 students graduated from Arizona’s public universities in December
PHOENIX — More than 17,000 college students walked across the stage to receive their diplomas from the three Arizona public universities in December. Broken down between the colleges, 12,000 graduated from Arizona State University, 2,600 from Northern Arizona University and 3,000 from the University of Arizona....
Proposed Marana data center has new name
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - The proposed data center in Marana now has a name. In a podcast, the town said it is called the Luckett Road North and South Data Centers. It is unclear if that means there will be two distinct facilities or not. The town released a...
Jax Providing Incentives for $148M Apartment/Retail Venture
Jacksonville, via The Downtown Investment Authority, has approved a public-private partnership package that advances plans for the N7 block of Pearl Square, being developed by Gateway Jax. The package supports the creation of a $148 million high-rise project, located at 119 Beaver Street, that will deliver a...
Phoenix Children’s Research Institute Secures Nearly $9M in NIH Funding
Phoenix Children’s Research Institute at the University of Arizona College of Medicine — Phoenix has been awarded three new R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the gold standard of federally funded research awards. The NIH grants total close to $9 million and will support groundbreaking research...
Charter schools City High, Paulo Freire say they will unionize, vote coming next year
The black and white UNITY mural greets students, staff and visitors at City High School in downtown Tucson. Forming that complete whole is foundational to what City High, a public charter school, was founded on in 2004, teachers say. On Thursday, staff and teachers brought that message of community full...
City of Tucson and Arts Foundation for Tucson public housing arts projects
The City of Tucson and the Arts Foundation for Tucson are moving forward with renovations for Tucson House and other housing projects throughout the city, including a $383,000 public art initiative
